10/11/2015

Important note

A lot of slides, text, images, examples have been peered from GEE core team folks' presentations.

You can find the original documents here:

http://earthenginesummit2015.earthoutreach.org/training-materials

Requirements and terms of use

Terms of use

Who can use GEE?

“… the Services may only be used for development, evaluation, research, or educational purposes. Services may be evaluated in a production environment but not for sustained commercial purposes. Maps created with Analysis Capabilities may not be resold.”

Terms of use

Intellectual Property Rights?

“… these Master Terms and the Addendums do not grant either party any express, implied, or other rights to the other’s content or any of the other’s Intellectual Property Rights. Intellectual Property Rights in and to the content accessed through the Services are the property of the applicable content owner and may be protected by applicable laws..”

You own your Intellectual Property Rights and your content

Requirements

  • have a Google account

  • have been accepted as a GEE beta tester

  • have a compatible web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, …)

General presentation of GEE

What is GEE?

Earth Engine is…

  • Access to over 40 years of Satellite Imagery (with daily updates).
  • Scientific algorithms to analyze that data (as well as your own data).

  • Google's computer clusters to analyze the data at scale.

  • A web-based tool for interactive data exploration.

  • An API for building your own specialized websites.

What can it do?

  • get an image

The Earth Engine Public Data Catalog

  • > 200 public datasets

  • > 5 million images

  • > 4000 new images every day

  • > 5 petabytes of data

What can it do?

  • get an image

  • apply an algorithm to an image

What can it do?

  • get an image

  • apply an algorithm to an image

  • filter a collection

What can it do?

  • get an image

  • apply an algorithm to an image

  • filter a collection

  • map an algorithm over a collection

What can it do?

  • get an image

  • apply an algorithm to an image

  • filter a collection

  • map an algorithm over a collection

  • reduce a collection

What can it do?

  • get an image

  • apply an algorithm to an image

  • filter a collection

  • map an algorithm over a collection

  • reduce a collection

  • compute aggregate statistics

How it works?

How it works?

How it works?

How it works?

How it works?

How it works?

Main GEE feartures

The Earth Engine Home Page

https://earthengine.google.org/

  • Browse the data catalogue
  • Do some simple visualisation
  • Perform simple operations without having to write any code

The Earth Engine “Playground”

https://ee-api.appspot.com/

  • A web app that combines a script editor with a map to display the results.

  • Lets you interactively develop an analysis workflow using the Earth Engine JavaScript library.

  • Includes example code to get you started, reference docs for library functions, an output console and data inspectors, a charting interface, and data export tools.

The Earth Engine “Playground”

https://ee-api.appspot.com/

The Earth Engine Help Page and Help Group